The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1897, Page 12

2 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1897. ROW AMONG BASEBALL PLAYERS Great Dissatisfaction Expe- rienced at the Present Management, MEETING HELD To TAKE ACTION. The Players and Club Managers Charge That Dirty Work Has Been Done, HONEY THE PROMOTERS’ SOLE OBJECT City Clubs Threaten the League's Disorzanization and a New Association Probable. There is great dissatisfaction in base- ball circles over the present management of the so-called ‘‘Examiner-Central Park” tournament, and it is doubtful if the schedule, or contemplated schedule, of games will be played. Last nicht the probable doom of the tournament exhibition was sealed by a meeting held at Corbett’s. At 8 o’clock “Napoleon’ James Joseph Fagen, repre- senting the California Markets, the man- ager of the Wil & Fincks and the manager of the Reliance Club of Oakland met, and after consultation the Reliance manager was instructed to submit to the committee in charge of the tournament Itimatum of the clubs named, which s that 40 per cent of the gross receints of the games hereafter to be played shall be paid to the contesting clubs. If this per- centage be not accorded the clubs will w from the tournament and form hedule. probable tha: the Gilt Edges of Santa Cruz and the Heese- vill juin :he new asso- on, leaving no nine loyal to tue pres- ent managemeut but the Bushrell-Alerts, Tie members of the Los Angeles nin- are very much dissatisfied at the manner in which they were treated on their last visit to this city. They arrived here on Friday, Septembe They vlayed Satur- | and Sunday, ) (Labor day), | Thursday (Adm1 ay), and the fol- lowing Saturday and Sunday. On Mon- day, the 13th, they left for the south. All of these pames were well patron zed, bui the visitors barely made their expense monerv. The gate receipts are now so divided that the management is a good deal like the boy o devcured the entire apple, including the core, leaving none of the fruit for his companion. Under the pres. ent arrangements tne competing ciubs divide 20 per cent of the gross receipts, esch receiving 10 rer cent. Of the re- maining 80 per cent 60 goes to the man- agement while the remaining 20 is sup- | posed to be given 0 charit It is doubtfal if D. R. McNeill, the lessee of Central Park, and the yellow journal, waoich 1s financially interested iu the tou: nament, will accede to the demands of the California Markets, Will & Fincks and the Reliance for 40 per cent of the gross re- ceipts for eight competing ciubs. The ocher journal, anticipating no doubt the coming storm, announces that the game Saturday wiil be between the Fresno Republicans and Bakersfield, and that ng the Busnunell-Alerts Il play the winners of Satuiday’s game. The Fresno Republicans ana the Bakers- fields are not members of the Tournament League, if it may pe called such, having both suffered the requisite number of de- feats in the preliminary games to be dropped. To show the management of the tourna- nient has bunkoed the piayers who bave done so much to make the game popular, it 1s only necessary to mention how the receipts of the game played between the California Markets and the Will & Fincks were divided. Thirteen hundred and seventy dollare was the gross receipts. Of this sum §$274 was dividea between the two clubs, while $1096 went to the management. The truism that charity covers a multi- tude of sins finds striking illustration on the day followi | the manner in which this whole baseball managed from start to | The names of reputable men, men | business has been fin anding and influence in the com- , bave been used to give character me which from 1s inception was for money-making purposes. Under the guise of charity and to reawaken an inter- est in the national game these gentlemen kindly lent their names. In the preliminury contests the motives of the management were transparent. The schedule was so arranged that the in- terior clubs were rapialy dropped. The promoters, seeing that it would be unwise 1o have Southern California unrepre- sented in the league on final tournament, had the Riversides come to this city, where they went down, although .the Riversides in contests south showea that they were a better club than Locs Angeles. Why 1t was desirea that Los Angeles should com- pete in the finals instead of Riverside is apoarent. Riverside being further away, the ex- | " pense of bringing the nine here would be greater. The same tactics were played on the Bakersfields and Fresnos, so that of the seven clubs in the rournament only three are from the interior—Santa Cruz, Sacramento and Los Angeles. The clubs which will withdraw from the tournament, forming # new association, will lease the grounds at Harrison and Eighth streets. WAS GOING TO KLONDIKE. Dora Courtright Wants the Return of Her Passage Money. Dora Courtrignt, 424 Post street, swore to a complaint in Judge Low’s court yes- terday for the arrest of G. Olson, manager of the sailing vessel Louisa D, on the carge of em bezzlement as a baiiee, On or about August 8 Miss Courtright called at the office of C. E. Bunce, 1008 Broadway, tnd engaged a passage on the Louisa D for Dawson City. She paia $100 down and later the balance of $15. Then she bought her outfit, which, ste 8aYS, cost her about §135. The Louisa D did not sail for Dawson City, and Miss Courtright alleges that she has made repeated demands for the return of her passage money without suc- cess, —_— e o Lost Boys Found. Lester Shepherd and Frankie McAuliffe, the young boys who ran away from their homes on Bush street, near Pine, have been founa. An uncle of young Shephard living near Far. mington, six miles from Stockton, saw the ac- count of the boys’ dissppearance in THE CALL and staried out to search in the surrounding country, and at last located the lads at work 0:1afarm. He sent word to Frank Butler, the Shepherd boy’s brother-in-law, wno left yesterday to bring the boys home, A Big Fleet of Schooners Was Becalm:d Off - F.btiloettn Were Lum ter-Laden, Others Were From the Canneries, and the Schooner Rattler Got In From a feal and Sea Otter Hunting Cruise. Some of the Schooners Towed Ia, Whle Others Wait:d for the Afterncon Breeze and Sailed In. . OTTER HUNTING DOES NOT PAY Captain Nielsen Says the Herds Are Being Esz- terminated. Brought the Schooner Rattler, Which Reports a Poor Catch, During the Season a White Otter Was Killed—Its Skin Brought to This Port. A big fleet of schooners was becalmed off the Golden Gate yesterday. Many of them towed in, but some held out until | the afternoon, when a breez: sprang up and they sailed in. Among tnose who were bunched outside were: The Sadie, witk salmon from Klawab; the Roy Somers, with lumber from Wiliana Bay; the Rattler, from a seal and otter-hunting cruise; the 0. M. Kellogg. with lumber from Grays Harbor; the Melancthon from Willapa Harbor, with lumber, and the Will W. Case, with salmon from Bris- tol Bay. The Rattler brought in 193 seal and 26 otter skins. Captain Nielsen says the otters are very scarce that are sighted are very bard Al “We had | splendid weather for hunting,” said he yuesterday. “In order to hunt the otter you must have a dead calm, and when I tell you that we lowered the boats fiity- five times you can see that it was not for lack of fine weather that we did not bring back more skins. I think the sea otter is being killed off, and if something Is not done the aaimal will become extinct. There were hunting the otter this season six schooners manned with whites. KEach one of these vessels carried six beats. panies had out about twenty schooners manned with Indians, and these carried about twenty skin boat!s each. From this you will see that it was no wonder the otter were scarce. We got a curiosity in the shape of a white otter. The skin is almnst a perfect one and the only one of its kind that has ever come to San Frane cisco.” The bark Ceylon, that drifted down on Arch Rock the day she gotin from Ha- waii, is much more extensively damaged than was at first supposed. She was placed on the Merchants’ drydock, and an examination snows that her entire keel was carried away, all the sheeting on the port side was torn off and several of the planks were stove in. It will cost several thousand dollars to get the bark ready for sea again.. The United States steamer Alert will probably sail for Central America to-day. She is just off the drydock, has the best of steaming coal aboard, and should make a fast run to the seat of trouble in Guate- mala. Seaboard says that the whaleback City of Everett, which took a cargo of grain from Sun Francisco to the starving poor of India, is to start on another interest- ing voyage. She will take & cargo of jute from Calcutia to Spain, iron ore irom Spain to New York, and 4000 tons of gen- eral merchandice at New York for the Yukon country. The owners of the whaleback expect that she will reach St. Michael the latter part of February or the first week in March. The Oceanic Steamship Company’s Mariposa sailed for Australasian ports with a very large general cargo and the following passengers: For Honolulu—L R. Burps, Miss E. Clark, Miss Margaret Clark, Sidney Clementson and wife, Harold G. Dillingham, Rev. ard wife, Mrs. W. R. Gardiner, M Grahsm and cnild, E. F. King and wi Lannon, Miss M. C. Laughlin Macfarlane, Miss Marks, G, F. Miller, Mrs. L. B. Newton, Mrs. C. T. Parsons, Miss L. Pires, Miss Peters, Miss Janet Scott, Mrs. L. L. Smith, M. A. Tully, Miss J. Weber, G. H. Webster Jr., Judge 1I. A, Widemann and For Auckland—William Berry, L. Bracks, D. Fr Hetheringron, M. Kelly, J. Perry, Mrs. C. Reld. k. L. C. Bartrop, A. Champ- Cushing, R. W. Denyer, C.P. Dixon, T. J. Edmonds, Victor Elliott, Mrs. C. J. Fairfax, Miss Fairiax, Miss A, C. Fairfax, G. R. Fearby, Hou. F.S.Grimwade, wife and maid, Miss Alice Grimwade, Miss k. Grimwede, W. B. Godkin, Mrs. L. P. Goldstone and two children, A. Goilin, E. J. Gorman, Max Haberlein, wife and threc'children, E. E. Hills, D. C. Johnson and wife, Mrs. Bentrice Lorne and child, H. Marshail] Dr. A. J. Mc- Donnell, Miss McGeorge, William McLean, J W. Parsons and wife, Mrs. S. V. Pettigrew and Miss Phiilips, Join at Hono.uiu for Sydney—C. Van Vooh- ris, Trumbull White, wife and child. The Harbor Commissioners held a short session yesterday. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company wrote complaining of tbe condition of Broadway wharl. Mr, Goodall of Goodall, Perkins & Co., point- ed out that in many places it was in cGan- ge:- of collapsing if any extra weight was put on it. The assistant engineer se- ported that 165 standard piles were re- quired under the whart and thirty-five 1n the bulkhead. The board decided to draw up plans and specifications and call for bids for the work. The wreck of the old Orpheus, that was lost in a collision wi'h (he steamer Pa- cific in November, 1875, has been located by the wrecking steamer Whitelaw, in Barclay Sound.” The Pucific went down with 185 out of 187 passengers and crew and the Orpheus arifted ashore on Lazar- retio lsland. The wrecker secured sev- eral relics from the remains of the old vessel and then steamed away. leys, Rev. Dr. Petigrew, B San Francisco Tent No. 4, at its last meeting, conferred the degrees in the amplified form on four candidates jand received two applica- tions. The Alaska fur com- | THE RACETRACK HUST SUFFER City Officials in Line on the Question of Half- Holidays. {Inattention to Business Will | Not Be Tolerated by De- partmental Heads. | The Evil of the Betting Ring Opposed i by Those Who Are Most Inter- ested in the Matter, The movement toward a curtailing of the racetrack exodus has taken firm root in the City Hall, and the chances are that | the public employes who desire to bet their money on the fleeting and not always reliable bangtails will have to take half-holidays at their own risk. Of course there was consternation among the sports when THE CALL an- nounced yesterday morning that the heuds of various city departments had decided to cut off the racetrack and re- quire their subordinates to attend more to the business of their offices and less to the seductive odds of the bookies. Some of the clerks and deputies talked of rebeiling | and pursuing tneir favorite pastime | whether their bosses would or no, while others thought the movement was a good one and that it could not but redound to the benefit of their superiors and the pub- lic at large. Those who thought their privileges were being curtailed changed their minds aboiit making a fuss after they had interviewed their chiefs, and the chances are that | when the track opens they will be found | ailigently bending over their desks and attending strictly to the duties that the public pays them to perform. A number of city officials who were interviewed yes- terday on the subj'ct of the racetrack priviieges expressed themselves against such operations interfering with the transaction of public business. *'I shall not allow the racetrack to in- terfere with the business of my office this year,” said Sheriff Whelan. “I have a system ot hali-holidays in my office on Saturday afternoons, when those who are not activelv engaged are permitted to get off and go where they rplease. This plan will not be changed, but I shall pot tol- erate any fl. msy excuses to get away to go | to the racetrack or for any other purpose. | My office is dull on Saturday afternoon, | and if my boys want to go 10 the races I | shall not object, but no interruption of business will be tolerated.”” E. W. Williams, clerk of the Justice courts, expressed himself as follows: “I nave seen the evils of the visits of City Hall emvployes to the track, and I am in accord with the movement to stop the practice. I have had no conference with other officials as yet, nor, in fact, have I | had any trouble” in this line with my depaties, but I know that others have.’’ | Chief Deputy Assessor Herzer stated yesterday that in future, asin the past. employes of the Assessors’ office would not | be permitted half-hol'days to visit the racetrack nor for any other ptrpose. “We will avoid trouble here by keeping the force at work during business hours, and only permiiting leaves of absence when it is shown that the same are absolutely necessary,” said he. NEARLY A HOLOGAUST Two Chinese Women and Their Babies Face Death in a Fire, An Exploding Lamp Covered Them With Blazing 0il—One Child Fatally Burned. A firein which two Chinese women and two tiny Chinese maidens narrowly es- caped incineration occurred in Quong Hun Dock’s tenement-house, 1008 Dupont street, at 6 o'clock last evening. The women, Ah Fong and Chung Joey. were n one of the narrow rooms on the second floor endeavoring to amuse fhe babies, Chuck Song and Ah Ping. One of the women, in her anxiety to bring a smile to the lips of the babies, struck a coal-oil lamp which was burning dimly on a rick- ety table and it fell to the floor. Iisput- tered for a minute and then exploded. Sheets of blazing oil were thrown over the cecupantsof the room and in an instant their clothes were wrapped in flames. The women grasped the babies and ran screaming into the hallway. . Beveral Cainamen, with unusual pres- ence of mind, tore the burning clothes from the women and babies, but not be- fore all had veen seriously burned. The ambulance was burriedly summoned and the sufferers were taken tv the ferry receiving hospital and swathed in cotton soaked in a soothing louion. All were severely burned. and it is the opinion of Drs. Hill and Deas, who attended the vic- tims of the flumes, that the youngest baby, Ah Ping, cannot survive her burns. Shortly after the lamp exploded an alarm was sounded from box 25. The de- partment arrived quickly, and had but little difficulty in extinguishing the flames. The damage to tne building, which is owned by J. Chicazola, will not exceed $150. | ian of the minor children, on 1he ground MAMMY” A A * H0RSE TRADER George D. Eaton Tells Stories About Bell Es- tate Transactions. Animals That Cost a Few Dollars Listed for Thousands, Butter and Other Supplies Sent Gratuitously to Many Other Households. There was another entertaining session of Judge Coffey’s court yesterday in bhear- | ing the contest over the now famous Beil estate. Young Thomas Frederick Bell is seeking to have his mother, Mrs. Teresa Bell, removed from the position of guard- that she is not a fit person for the place, on account of her bad habits. Mrs. Bell threw a bomb into the oppo- sition camp on the first day’s proceedings by swearing that young Bell is not her son and that therefore be is nokin to the minor children over whom he sought to‘ exercise the authority of guardian. To | disprove the assertion of Mrs. Bell Attor- ney Schooler, representing the young man, produced the original church rec- ords, which show that Thomas Frederick Bell and Marie Teresa Beli, children of Thomas and Teresa Bell, were duly bap- tized at appropriate dates, according to the rites of the Catbolic church, in this City. Yesterday morning the first witness was a breezy young man named George R. Eaton. He wa- formerly a bookkeeper for | the Bell househoid at a salary of $5000 a | year, which he said was promised to him, but paid only in part. For a balance of a few thousands he was compelled to accept a note, wnich he sold at a discount of 20 per cent. Mr. Eaton’s revelations were mostly fiscal in their nature. He recalled the fact that he once took $5000 to the Bell mansion, out of which Mrs. Bell got only $50, the remainder being handled by Mrs. M.'E. Pleasant, generally known in this community as *“Mammy’’ Pieasant. At the same time Mrs. Pieasant directed him to make a ialse entry of $500 against Fred Bell, pretending that si.e had paid him that sum on = fictitious debt of $5000, which Mrs. Pleesant pretended was due from Mre. Bell to Fred, but which in truth never existed. Judge Coffey sharpiy questioned the witness in regard :o his acknowledgment | that be had mude false entries i1n his books. The only explanation was that Mrs. Pleasant had absolute control of everything about the establishment, and tlat he followed her instructions. He ad- mitted that the family ailowance was $1500 a month, yet bills for household ex- penses were allowed to accumuliate. At the time he got that $5000 on Mrs. Bell’s account at the request of Mrs. Pleasant there was an accumulation of $2000 in ordinary bills for food and supniies out- standing. Some “bogus’’ dents against Mrs, Bell were also mentioned by Mr. Eaton. He said that Mrs. Rebecca J. Boone was put in the guise of a creditor by Mrs. Pieasant contrary to the facis. There was a butcher bill for $600, which caused some trouble. The bl was all right so far as the dealer was concerned, that is to say the meat was furnished, but it was not consumad by members of the Bell household; it was distributed to certain famites, friends of Mrs. Pleasant, together with large quanti- ties of butter and other edibles. Among those mentioned as pensioners on the bounty of the Bell household through the courtesy of “Mammy’* Pleasant are Mrs. Perry, Mrs. Stewart, the Hall family, Mrs. Small, Mrs. Gordan, Mrs, Park, a butcher- boy, Mr. Reynolds and Mrs. Hopkins. Witness Katon declared that in his pres- ence Mrs. Pleasant told Mrs. Bell that much of the money came from Mrs. Boone and that sue also got money as rent for her property in the East. Eaton said that Mrs. Pleasant bought several borses and other things for small prices and charged them up against Mrs. Bell at big figures, One horse that cost Mrs. Pleasant $55 was palmea off on Mrs., Bell for $500. Another horse that cost $15 was represented to be an KElectioneer stallion from Pulo Alto and valnea at sev- eral hundred. He said he tried to tell Mrs. Bell about the way she was being swindled, but she wouldn't listen to a word he said. MORE WATER ASKED FOR, Sunset Heights Has Supervisors for Supply. The progress of the Sunset Heights is, accordiny to the opinion of the members of the Sunset Improvement Club, kept backward because of the action or rather the non-action of the Spring Valley Water Company in not supplying the people with an abundance of fresh water. The residents of that particular section claim that the heights are one of the choice places of residence in or_about the city, and have petitioned the Board of Super- visors torectify the matter. Steps are being taken to cut streets and avenues through the sandhills leading to the Mission section. As an incentive to | this work C. G. Larsen, the owner of quite a large piece of property in this locality, has made an offer 10 grade P street from Nineteenth avenue west, to connect with the Nineteenth-avenue boulevard, which will be one of the finest driveways in the city when finished, Petitioned the an Extra A0 0LD TINE O TAMALPATS Mr. and Mrs, Herman QOel- richs Entertain a Party on the Mountain. Generous Refreshments and a| Game of Tag Around the Corridors, | Some of the Other Guests Objectel, but That Did Not Spoil Sport. 1t is an accepted fact that Californians are the most lavishly generous of enter- tainers, and when 1t has been their rare good fortune to move within New York’s smail and charmed circle, and to have enjoyed the hospitality of the Old World’s noblest and oldest families, we unaturally look for great things from them. The fickle goddess who presides over the social arena bas been more than kind to two of California’s fairest daughters, and consequently when Mrs. Herman Oelrichs and ber sister, Miss Fair, start out to do something, California, figura- tively, of course, hoids her breath, and the glorious climate bows its stately head, figuratively, of course, again, and allows the social leaders to harness it as they will, even to the full moon, as Las lately been accomplished. f Since their recent arrival from New York Mrs. Oelrichs and Miss Fair, who have joined Mr. Qelzichs here, have enter- tained most generous.y. It is not the season for large affairs. and so the gath- erings bave been small and delightfully informal. On Friday evening last lnsr:“ was a circus party, on Sunday night a| dinner, and on Wednesday evening last, the gayest and jolliest of all informal af- | fairs, a night on gray old Tamalipais. In the party were Miss Jennie Blair, Miss Wells, Miss Fair, Donald de V. Gra- ham, Fred Webster and Mr. and Mrs. Oelrichs of course. The party carried no | suve the generous refreshments a thoughtful host and hostess had offered | before departure, and incidentally several | of Huber’s musicians, to awaken musical echoes along the line and on the moun- tain’s shrubby summit. Dinner at the tavern, which, by the way, was served immediately upon the ar- rival of the party, was a most elaborate affair. Everything that the marketand the cellar afford was there for the asking, and calls were many and often. After dinner several of the party, with Mr. Qel- richs tor guide, wanderea off over the trails on the summit, and although nene were willing 10 admit it, they must have lost their way, for Mrs. Oelrichs, who re- mained behind, was visibly aiarmed. The guests at the tavern, with taste un- developed and artistic appreciation dwarfed, the consequences of not mixing with society’s gay world, remained abroad | till about 10 o’clock to admire the glorious | moon, and then retired to enjoy the sleep of the just and the dull. But if one cannot enjoy the benefits of living in the fine world it is next door to happiness to be near, or, as 1t were, to hang on the outskirts of it. And this rare happiness the otuer Tamalpais guests ex- perienced. At about midnight they heard taugh- ter's silvery peals in the corridors, ming- ling with the soft patter of slipper-shod feet, the frou-frou ot cool muslin gowns or the rustle of silk ones—ienorance de- prived them the power to separate their sensations—and last, but not least, chubby fists and muscular fists pounding on doors—the whole probably a new figure of the cotillon—"midnight game of tag in costume.” Some of the other guests, it must be ad- mitted, were rude enouch to consider they had been disturbed, but others, close observers of course, enjyed this glimpse of the ben-ton and the jokes and xibes and flashes of wit which feil from the coral lipsof theladies, and whichonly the initiated could appreciaie. The guests departed yesterday morning, leaving only the flickering glow of de- parting greatness by their valuabie auto- crapbs on the tavern’s register, THE TESTIMONY ALL IN, Judge Campbell Will Give His Decision in the Figel Case To-Day. The testimony in the preliminary ex- amination of Figel on the charze of mur- der was concluded yesterday afternoon, and, by agreement of the attorneys, the case was submitted to the court without argument. Judge Campbell took it under advise- ment until 10 o’clock this morning, when he will render his decision. Coroner Hawkins testified that he had made ome recentexperiments with a dead | body and found that hair would burn when a pistol was held close against the head. 2 Joseph B. McCormick said that he haa Figel's keys and had not put any on the Ting. John B. Nye testified that it was his du y to et the clocks in the Nevade block and that, at the request of theelava- tor-boy, he always seL the one over the elevator door fast. This is the clock by which M. M. Rice fixed the time that he saw tue men quarrelingin front of the Hoffman store, 3 Henry Harris, a salesman of Hoffman, Rothchild & Co., and James W. Leggett, a CAvLy reporter, testified to having been directly opposite the store. outside the store on June 8 wnen the ex- periment of firing shots in the store had been made. They said they heard no report. L. L. Leavings testified to the fact that two of the wiinesses, Ryan and Logan, were in Alaska. | Judge Murphy took the stand to im- peach the testimony of Jared Dean as to J. G. Maloney’s reputation. Dean had told Judge Murphy that Maloney was an houest, sober and inaus:rious man. | The defense called Alfred Anderson an« Mark Dreyfuss, who testified they had indistinctly heard a stot duringz the ex- periment on June 8, but said they were | R. Pleasant said he passed the corner of Bush and Bstiery streets one evenin : in June and heard a pistol shot, but could not fix the date nor t me. To show that Pieasant had heard tne shot on June 1| Philiip 8. Beel was calied to givs a ‘con- versation he had with Pleasant, but his testimony was ruled out as hearsay. E. F. Schulte was recalled 10 the stand to rebut the testimony of Isaac Gellert that Fizel had solu Richard Alexander pistol Three or four yvears ago. The wit- n-ss, however, corroborated the testimony of Gellert, as he said he had bought the pistol from Alexander, who had told Schu'te that he had bought it of Figel. Figel took the stand again and swore positively he never sold a pistol to Alex- | ander, and that he never owned any but the pistoi which killed Hoffman and the | one he bought the eveniug of the shoot- | inz. A. R. Alexander of San Jose contra- dicted the testimony of Figel point b ank, | swearing that he had bought the pistol or | the defendant and that later he had sold it to Schulte. | This testimony concluded the case and | an adjournment was taken until this morning. | ————— A VACANCY FILLED. P. J. Hagan Appointed a Member of the Repub'ican County Committee., The Republican County Committee met in Scottish Hall last night, Charles Main- waring in tha chair. There was a very large attendance. 3 The meeting was called especlally to fill the vacancy on the committee caused by the death of Richard W. Heilman of the Thirty-second district, and the selection fell upon P. J. Hagan. Resolutions of sympathy and condolence | i | | NEW TO-DAY.: GREAT SPECIAL SALE —o— Muslin Underwear AN Flannelette Nightgowns 1500 Manufacturers' Samples ——CONSISTING UF— 'LADIES' GOWNS, DRAWERS, CHEN 'LONG AND SHORT SKIRT CORSET COVERN, Ete., Less Than 3 Actual Value. 3 EXTRA SPECIALS! ozen LADIES’ FLANNE i NIGHTGOWNS, in all regular price $1, will be placed on sale at 50c each. | 50 dozen LADIES’ SUMMER SHIRT W AISTS, regular prica $2 50, will be closed out at $1 each. $1.00- —To secure the best choice from X.B- the above EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS CALL EARLY. / Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets with the widow of the deceased member | were also passed. i NEW TO-DAY-CLOTHING. A Windowful of Trousers. Don’t miss seeing the wonderful array of new, stylish Trousers on ex- hibition to-day in our window. The latest ideas in Plaids, Stripes and Checks—only just ar- rived from the East. $1.85, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50, | $5.00, $5.50 and $6.00. | They represent the best to be had in Trou- sers. We are after the |good trade of this city. |We know you are far sighted enough to see that it’s the law of econ- fomy to buy the best, Every stitch in these Trousers is right. They will fit right and wear |right—or back comes your money. ““The lightest store in San Francisco.”’ Come to-day to the MEAL = 3 2 . 1 3 11 | Losses Incurred during the ye — | | a 897. | STATEMENT CONDITION AND AFFAIRS | ....OF THE. National - Standard INSURANCE COMPANY F NEW YOREK, IN York. on the 3ist d #nd for the year ending on ¢ 3 lusurunce Commissioner of :he state of C. pursuant to the provisions of sections 611 of the Politicai Cole, condens-d as per biauk furnished by ihe Commissiouer. CAPITAL, Amount of Capltal Stock, paid up in Cash......... . > ASSELS, Cash Market Value of all Stocks ard | Bonds owned by Com $4%0,000 00 | Casn in Bauks 48,463 28 | Toterest due an and Loans . . . 663 67 | Premiums in due Course of Collection 51.81:%77 Total Assets LIABILITIES, Losses in process of Adjusiment or in uspense oo 8 10,143 56 Gross premiums on © Risks ru ning one year or le.s, $250,409 3 reinsurance 50 per cex Commissions and Broser: 0 beco 1e due Return Premium: Relnsurance. ... Total Liabilities.... 125,204 68 | INC( ME. | Net Cashactually received for Fire Preminms. ... .. Sisai .- 820571896 Received for Interest and dividends on Bonds, Stocks, Loans and from all dther sources g 248 33 Total income EXPENDITURES. Net amount psid for Fire Losses . 827,785 24 Paid or allowed for Commission or 65,218 95 Paid for & es and other charges for officers, clerks, etc Pald for tate, taxes 2,470 00 National and local ‘Total expenditures. 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